>> On May 8 2007 04:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote:> >> > in my opinion, the config option "EMBEDDED" is just plain silly. as> >i mentioned earlier, there may be other reasons that people want to> >de-activate normally selected features rather than just for strictly> >embedded systems.>> Did not you want to make a patch row that expresses all your ideas, aka> CONFIG_EXPERT> CONFIG_ASKFORDETAILS (former CONFIG_EMBEDDED, e.g. "place in memory where> kernel is loaded")> CONFIG_OBSOLETE> CONFIG_DEPRECATED> etc.? :)

i hadn't actually considered *that* possibility, but the idea is sortof what i had in mind -- a clear, top-level setting that, in one swellfoop, will change what's available throughout the tree. i thinkthat's the most intuitively clear way to do it.

rday

p.s. mostly, i just don't think labelling that selection with theword "EMBEDDED" makes a lot of sense. who's to say that any givenfeature should be de-selectable only on an embedded system?-- ========================================================================Robert P. J. DayLinux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel PedantryWaterloo, Ontario, CANADAhttp://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page========================================================================-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.orgMore majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/